Wierd Problem - Can Anyone Help?

[Flying Pig]

My DVD drive suddenly stopped acknowledge that I have put anything in it. I insert the disc, click the application and I get a NO DISC message. My Computer doesn't know that anything's there either, but it can eject the drive. If it helps, I'm using XP.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Did you try another disc? Depending on the type, you may have accidentally put in the wrong type of disc (you have a DVD drive, otherwise I'd say DVD-in-CD)

If not, I'm guessing you may have accidentally killed the driver. Try rebooting?

I think ejecting the drive is within the firmware/physical CD drive, as it ejected even though I once accidentally uninstalled the drivers. Because it was in the "Safely remove hardware" thing and I removed it to see what would happen.

 

[Cutlass]

Try different disks, but if the problem is universal it's possible that the drive has died.

 

[Flying Pig]

Did you try another disc? Depending on the type, you may have accidentally put in the wrong type of disc (you have a DVD drive, otherwise I'd say DVD-in-CD)

If not, I'm guessing you may have accidentally killed the driver. Try rebooting?

I think ejecting the drive is within the firmware/physical CD drive, as it ejected even though I once accidentally uninstalled the drivers. Because it was in the "Safely remove hardware" thing and I removed it to see what would happen.

I mean that I had a Civ IV disc in it, and tried to run it one day and it didn't know it was there. I then put in more discs, same problem. What do you mean by re-boot?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Go to control panel->system->hardware->device manager and have a lok at the properties of the DVD drive, should tell you if the driver is working.

 

[Flying Pig]

It says that it's working perfectly. I tried them in the other drive - no joy.

 

[Cutlass]

you tried the same disk in a different drive and the other drive said there was no disk there?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I mean that I had a Civ IV disc in it, and tried to run it one day and it didn't know it was there. I then put in more discs, same problem. What do you mean by re-boot?

Turn the computer off and back on.

 

[GravityWave]

It says that it's working perfectly. I tried them in the other drive - no joy.

Switch off the PC and then take the side panel off and see if both drives use the same cable and port on the motherboard (if so they are configured as master and slave using an IDE cable). If so completely unplug the cable from the drives and the motherboard and then (using an entirely new cable if possible) plug only the master drive in and use a different IDE port on the motherboard if possible. Also unplug the second drives power connector. Put the side panel back on, switch on the pc, and see if you can read disks.